Meaning

1 senses

  1. To pack up a campsite and move on.

    Soldiers, break camp! We strike the city of Sardis at dawn!

More definitions
  • leave a camp

Examples

2 sentences

  1. He was ready to break camp and go back home.

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  2. I took a break from camping for a couple of years.

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Translations

4 languages

Forms

breaks camp, breaking camp, broke camp, broken camp
Base formbreak camp · to break camp
3rd person singularbreaks camp
Present participlebreaking camp
Past simplebroke camp
Past participlebroken camp

irregular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theybreak camp
he, she, itbreaks camp

Past simpleLesson

all personsbroke camp

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave broken camp
he, she, ithas broken camp

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill break camp

Synonyms

3 synonyms
strike campstrike the tentdecamp
Close in meaning

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
breadthbreadwinnerC2breakA1breakableB2breakagebreakdownB2

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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